SCHEDULED EVENTS

October 2018

Wednesday, October 3rd – The Freight and Salvage: The Moth Story Slam Competition Topic is Scandal Evening Outing Program Fee $12 Cash only. Sign Up Deadline September 23rd. I will be purchasing the tickets on September 25th. Note this is an evening outing going from 7:30 pm to approximately 9:30 pm. Meet at the Freight and Salvage Coffee House, about 2.5 blocks north west of the Downtown Berkeley Bart station. We meet out front at 7:00 pm. The address is 2020 Addison St, Berkeley. Doors Open at 6:30 pm and Stories begin at 7:30 pm. No transportation

Friday, October 5th – Adult Indoor Rock Climbing Program Fee $10 for Adult participants, no fee for Youth or Volunteers. Cash only. Sign Up Deadline September 28th. Meet at Ed Roberts Campus (ERC) at 10:30 am and depart at 10:45 am or meet at Iron Works at 11:00 am. We will climb until 2:00 pm. Iron Works is located at 800 Potter St, Berkeley CA. If you’re interested in volunteering at Berkeley IronWorks, their email is biwbelay@gmail.com.

Friday, October 5th – Costco in Richmond Program Fee $5. No fee for volunteers. Sign Up Deadline is September 28th. We need volunteers or attendants to assist with shopping, loading, and unloading to the BORP bus and to the participants home. Those who are requiring transportation, meet out front of the ERC at 2:30 pm or at Costco at 4801 Central Ave, Richmond, CA 94804. For those who are meeting us there, we’ll meet out front of Costco between 3:00 to 3:15 pm and we will return around 6:00 or 6:30 pm.

Sunday, October 7th: Shopping at Columbia Sportswear No Program Fee. Sign Up Deadline is September 23rd. Support BORP by joining us for a shopping outing to Columbia Sportswear. We are getting a unique opportunity of shopping at the employees store and getting a significant discount on merchandise. Folks will be able to shop between September 22nd and October 21st. BORP will receive 10% of the total purchases. We need volunteers to assist folks with shopping. Note: If folks want, we may go out for food afterwards. More information to follow.

Thursday, October 11th: C.E.R.T. Training, Possible Topic: Light Search and Rescue No Program Fee. Sign Up Deadline is September 28th. Space is limited for this training. More information to follow.

Sunday, October 14th: Coastal Hike Aptos Participant Program Fee $15, No Fee for Volunteers or Youth. Sign Up Deadline is September 23rd. Please note we may only have one bus. Some volunteers may need to carpool.

Wednesday, October 17th – TCM Big Screen Classic Movie Mister Smith Goes to Washington Program fee is $10. Sign up Deadline is October 7th. We will eat across from the theater at Pleasant Hill either before or after the movie depending upon transportation logistics. More information to follow. A naive man (Jimmy Stewart) is appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn’t back down.

Saturday, October 20th: Superfest Film Festival in Berkeley Program fee is cost of the ticket. Sign up Deadline is September 23rd. We will most likely go out for food before the movies. Come to Superfest to watch a series of films, including the following. All films are audio described and closed captioned. Saturday’s film schedule is divided into two screenings. The first screening starts at 2pm. The second starts at 6pm.

Tickets to attend one of these screenings are $15. Tickets to see both screenings will cost $24. Please note that we will not be offering transportation for this outing. We will meet at a BART station and head to the venu

e from there. Films showing in the 2pm screening include: Journey to the Miracle Man, Sweden/Brazil, 2018 (Documentary Feature, 65 minutes) With as much hope as doubt, Fabian and Lisa travel on a journey that will change their worldview. But is the Miracle Man (John of God) the savior everyone is talking about? And do they need to believe to be healed? Stopgap in Stop Motion, United Kingdom, 2017 (Animated Short, 5 minutes) Photographs of performers in a disabled and non-disabled dance company come to life. The individual artists dance out of the photos and across table tops until the whole company meets and performs in unison. This is Normal, United States, 2014 (Dramatic Short, 19 minutes) A young deaf woman undergoes an experimental medical procedure that is supposed to “cure” her of her deafness and give her the ability to hear. Despite the controversy, Gwen risks her friends, culture and identity to discover the answer to the question, “Is it worth giving up who you’ve been for who you could become?” Kū Kanaka/Stand Tall, United States, 2016 (Documentary Short, 28 minutes) When 15-yearold Kanalu Young takes a dive into shallow water, he becomes quadriplegic, paralyzed from the neck down. Angry and defiant through months of rehabilitation, he begins to change when he learns the Hawaiian language, and discovers an untold story of Hawaiian history.

Films showing at the 6pm screening on Saturday include: To Know Him, United Kingdom, 2018 (Dramatic Short, 28 minutes) When a tragic accident leaves Sarah grieving for her deaf partner Rob, she is forced to track down and engage with his estranged hearing father. To lay the man she loves to rest, Sarah must overcome a barrier far greater than language. Just Go! Latvia, 2017 (Action Short, 11 minutes) Inspired by the true story about a young man, Just, who lost both of his legs in a childhood accident. At age 24, he is in love with the girl next door, and through an action-packed series of events, the film proves that looks can be deceiving. Stim – P.K. Walker Innovation in Craft Award, United States, 2017 (Documentary Short, 7 minutes) An artistic ode to the practice of stimming, or self-stimulatory behavior, the repetition of physical movements or sounds, or repetitive movement of objects. Who Am I To Stop It – Disability Justice Award, United States, 2017 (Documentary Short, 30 minutes) This semi-observational documentary explores isolation, art and transformation after brain injury. Through cinéma vérité, the film follows Dani Sanderson, a poet and beat boxer, as she navigates autonomy, relationships, and questions of family, queer sexuality and faith. Stumped – Best of Festival, Short, United States, 2017 (Documentary Short, 25 minutes) Climber Maureen Beck is not here to be your inspiration. She was born missing her lower left arm, but that hasn’t stopped her from going hard. “I don’t want to just be a good one-armed climber,” says Maureen. “I want to be a good climber.”

Sunday, October 21st: Possible Rock Climbing Opportunity at Mission Cliffs No Program fee. Sign up Deadline is September 23rd. We will need to be at the Mission Cliff’s gym at 10am. The event would go from 10am to noon. We will likely need to meet at Ed Roberts Campus in Berkeley by 9am to leave by 9:15am. We will be joining Alyssa and some of our regular crew from Berkeley Ironworks. We will get an opportunity to climb as well as teach people from Mission Cliffs how we do what we do. When we’re done, the bus would drop folks off for Superfest and then return anyone who’s not interested in Superfest back to Berkeley. I’m not sure how food will work for this outing, we will likely have to bring food rather than going to a restaurant (Superduper Burger). I should know more about this next week, please let me know if you’re interested in this outing. If the whole group decides not to do Superfest on Sunday then we will have no problem going out for food. Anyone not interested in rock climbing may need to meet us in San Francisco for Superfest’s Sunday Screening.

Sunday, October 21st: Superfest Film Festival San Francisco Program fee is $15. Sign up Deadline is September 23rd. Participants who are not involved in the rock climbing clinic may need to meet us in San Francisco as our bus will not have time to go back to Berkeley to pick folks up. Come to Superfest to watch a series of films, including the following. All films are audio described and closed captioned.

Films screening on Sunday include: Still Tomorrow – Documentary, Best of Festival, Feature China, 2016 (1 hour 23 minutes), Yu Xiuhua is a village woman with cerebral palsy, who became China’s most well-known poet in 2015. Her 20-year-long arranged marriage has become the biggest pain in her life. Through her poems, she contemplates her fate and writes about her body and her desire for true love. Gaelynn Lea – The Songs We Sing, United States, 2017 (Documentary Short , 11 minutes) Minnesota violinist and disability rights advocate Gaelynn Lea travels the upper Midwest on tour, experiencing the ups and downs of the road while hustling hard to make it as a performer and artist. Making Waves, Australia, 2017 (Documentary Short, 6 minutes) Max McAuley is a young, professional dancer with Down Syndrome. In this story, Max is the principal dancer in a choreographed work that is inspired by the watery world of his dreams.

Sunday, October 28th – Abilities Expo in San Mateo Program Fee $10. Sign Up Deadline is September 23rd. We only have one bus for this outing and this is an outing for folks with physical disabilities. Priority will be given to folks with physical disabilities as the expo is primarily geared to that population. The expo goes from 11am to 4pm. We will likely meet at Ed Roberts at 9:30am. We’ll be back in Berkeley sometime around 5pm.

November 2018

Friday, November 2nd – Adult Indoor Rock Climbing Program Fee for adults $10 Cash only. No fee for volunteers. Sign Up Deadline October 25th. Meet at Ed Roberts Campus (ERC) at 10:30 am and depart at 10:45 am or meet at Iron Works at 11:00 am. We will climb until 2:00 pm. Iron Works is located at 800 Potter St, Berkeley CA. If you’re interested in volunteering at Berkeley IronWorks, their email is biwbelay@gmail.com.

Friday, November 2nd – Costco in Richmond Program Fee $5. Sign Up Deadline is October 25th. We need volunteers or attendants to assist with shopping, loading, and unloading to the BORP bus and to the participants home. Those who are requiring transportation, meet out front of the ERC at 2:30 pm or meet us at Costco at 4801 Central Ave, Richmond. For those who are meeting us there, we’ll meet out front of Costco between 3:00 to 3:15 pm and we will return around 6:00 or 6:30 pm.

Sunday, November 4th – G.G.N.R.A. Annual Information Meeting No Program Fee. Sign Up Deadline is October 15th. The National Park Service invites you to a public forum on access of Bay Area National Parks at the Ed Roberts Campus, 3075 Adeline St., Berkeley. Doors will be open from 1– 4PM. Presentations will begin at 1:00PM. Information Fair from 2 – 4PM. Presentations will include Golden Gate NRA, Pinnacles National Park, Point Reyes National Seashore, Juan Bautista de Anza, National Historic Trail. Drinks will be provided. Assistive listening devices and sign language interpreters will be available. This is a scent-free campus. Participants can learn, share, improve access & sign up for a ranger-led programs at the information fair. America the Beautiful Access Passes will be available! If you have questions please let me know. No transportation.

Wednesday, November 7th – The Freight and Salvage: The Moth Story Slam Competition Topic is BEGINNINGS Evening Outing Program Fee $12 Cash only. Sign Up Deadline October 27th. Note this is an evening outing going from 7:30 pm to approximately 9:30 pm. Meet at the Freight and Salvage Coffee House, about 2.5 blocks north west of the Downtown Berkeley Bart station. We meet out front at 7:00 pm. The address is 2020 Addison St, Berkeley. Doors Open at 6:30 pm and Stories begin at 7:30 pm. No transportation Sunday, November 11th – To Be Announced This is Veteran’s Day. We will either hike or possibly go out for a movie either at a theater or at a participant’s home. More information to follow.

Wednesday, November 14th – Possible Big Screen Movie: Die Hard Program Fee $10. I’m not sure if this is a movie folks will be interested in, and that’s why I’m saying ‘possible’. This is an action movie from 1988. In this movie there are a lot of explosions and it may be harder to follow without audio description. We can go if folks want to. Those folks who usually go to the movies with us at the theater in Pleasant Hill, please let me know if you’re interested in this movie. Please let me know if you’re interested by September 23rd.

Sunday, November 18th – Adventures and Outings Annual Holiday Potluck Program Fee is $10. Sign Up Deadline is November 10th. Potluck is at the Ed Roberts Campus. All participants must bring a dish. Set up will be at noon. Please arrive with your dishes by 1pm. We will eat from 2pm to 4pm. Clean up and be out by 5pm. Please let me know what you would like to bring or check in with me if you need suggestions. If you’re making a dish, please leave out black pepper in order to accommodate a black pepper allergy.

Saturday, November 24th – Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands at Freight and Salvage Program Fee is $20 for your ticket. EARLY Sign Up Deadline is September 23rd. No transportation. Meet at the Freight and Salvage Coffee House at 7pm, about 2.5 blocks north west of the Downtown Berkeley Bart station. We meet out front at 7:00 pm. The address is 2020 Addison St, Berkeley. Doors Open at 7 pm and the show begins at 8 pm.

Sunday, November 25th – Possible Bowling at Diablo Valley Bowl in Concord and Lunch at El Molino Program Fee is $15 for participants, $6 for volunteers. Sign Up Deadline is November 1st. Please note that if it is raining, or if folks would rather, we could go to get lunch at the Old Spaghetti Factory, but that will make it a more expensive day. Program fee does not cover the cost of lunch.

December 2018

Saturday, December 1st – Holly Near with Tammy Hall and Jan Martinelli Program Fee is $28 for your ticket. EARLY Sign Up Deadline is September 23rd. No transportation. Meet at the Freight and Salvage Coffee House at 7pm, about 2.5 blocks north west of the Downtown Berkeley Bart station. We meet out front at 7:00 pm. The address is 2020 Addison St, Berkeley. Doors Open at 7 pm and the show begins at 8 pm.

Sunday, December 2nd – Wine Tasting and Olive Oil Tasting Program Fee is for Participants: $20 for those wishing to do wine tasting and olive oil tasting, $10 for participants who want olive oil tasting only. For volunteers: $15 for those wishing to do wine tasting and olive oil tasting, and no fee for volunteers wanting olive oil tasting only. Sign Up Deadline is November 2nd. Please note space will be limited as we may only have one bus. I will try to make reservations at Jacuzzi Family Vineyards in Sonoma. More information to follow, including where we might get lunch.

Wednesday, December 5th – The Freight and Salvage: The Moth Story Slam Competition Topic is INSTINCTS Evening Outing Program Fee $12 Cash only. Sign Up Deadline November 25th. Note this is an evening outing going from 7:30 pm to approximately 9:30 pm. Meet at the Freight and Salvage Coffee House, about 2.5 blocks north west of the Downtown Berkeley Bart station. We meet out front at 7:00 pm. The address is 2020 Addison St, Berkeley. Doors Open at 6:30 pm and Stories begin at 7:30 pm. No transportation

Thursday, December 6th – Christmas Revels Participant program Fee $5 Cash only. No fee for volunteers. Sign Up Deadline November 25th. Our Revels story begins in 1600 in that part of Spain called Andalusia. Three individuals – a young Moorish woman, a Sephardic Jew, and an elderly Castilian – happen to meet, each armed with a mysterious clue that is guiding them on a quest. They are all hoping to find their way back through time to the era of La Convivencia , a time when, as they understand it, all three cultures – Muslim, Jewish, and Christian – lived in a spirit of tolerance and peace. Directed to pay attention to the celestial bodies, and swept up in the Revels celebration of the Solstice, they learn how each culture celebrates the Sun, the Moon, and the stars in song, dance, poetry and story. By looking to the heavens, they learn the secret of finding the Convivencia. They come to realize that despite the things that make each of us different and unique, in the end, we all live under the same sky. Please note we will most likely meet at Ed Roberts at 5:30pm and depart by 5:45pm. Folks can also meet us directly at the wheelchair accessible entrance on the side of the theater building at 6:25pm. The theater is the Scottish Rite Theater located at 1547 Lakeside Drive. There will be a pre-show orientation to assist those with visual impairments to understand the set and the costumes.

Friday, December 7th – Adult Indoor Rock Climbing Program Fee $10 for Adult participants, no fee for Youth or Volunteers. Cash only. Sign Up Deadline November 30th. Meet at Ed Roberts Campus (ERC) at 10:30 am and depart at 10:45 am or meet at Iron Works at 11:00 am. We will climb until 2:00 pm. Iron Works is located at 800 Potter St, Berkeley CA.

Friday, December 7th – Costco in Richmond Program Fee $5. Sign Up Deadline is November 30th. We need volunteers or attendants to assist with shopping, loading, and unloading to the BORP bus and to the participants home. Those who are requiring transportation, meet out front of the ERC at 2:30 pm or at Costco at 4801 Central Ave, Richmond, CA 94804. For those who are meeting us there, we’ll meet out front of Costco between 3:00 to 3:15 pm and we will return around 6:00 or 6:30 pm.

Sunday, December 9th – Annual Ghirardelli Chocolate Warehouse Sale in San Leandro Program Fee $5, no fee for Volunteers. Sign Up Deadline is November 15th. The sales floor will be expanded to offer additional discounted gifts just in time for the holidays. Discover a unique assortment of signature squares chocolates, gift baskets, baking chocolate, gift tins, and a variety of exclusive chocolate gifts not available anywhere else. Plus, a coloring station for kids, holiday photo opportunities, holiday carolers, a chance to win chocolate prizes, and a complimentary Ghirardelli hot cocoa sample for all guests! Wednesday, December 12th – TCM Big Screen Movie: White Christmas Program fee is $10, Sign Up Deadline is November 15th. We will eat across from the theater at Pleasant Hill either before or after the movie depending upon transportation logistics. More information to follow. White Christmas is about two talented song-and-dance men (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. One winter they join forces with a sister act (Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen) and trek to Vermont for a white Christmas.

Sunday, December 16th – Gathering at a Participant’s Home in Berkeley Program fee is $10, no fee for volunteers. Sign Up Deadline is December 2nd. More information to follow, including program fee.

Thursday, December 27th OR Friday, December 28th – Pre-New Year’s Meal Program fee is that people pay for their meal. Sign Up Deadline is December 1st. More information to follow. Please let me know if you have a restaurant in mind that would be good for a group meal. Right now I’m leaning towards a Chinese restaurant in Albany.

*This list is a work-in-progress; trips are often added or sometimes changed. Please note it is important that you attend the outings that you sign up for. Once we schedule an outing, we are unable to cancel the driver once they have been scheduled. Note for any outdoor outing, I will come up with a rain plan and let folks know what that’s going to be. Participants are responsible for getting themselves to and from the pickup points independently. Every attempt will be made to meet paratransit pickup times, however, often due to traffic and other circumstances beyond our control, we may get back later and folks will have to find their own way home.

Volunteers are needed to make BORP trips possible. We do have outings where volunteer support is limited so I cannot guarantee a one to one ratio of volunteer-to-participant. Participants must be able to follow other participants or independently navigate for themselves.

Please note: We now have Rachel at the front desk. She’s generally in the office in the afternoon. At this time we are still not ready to take credit card payments, because the credit card companies are charging an extra fee and taking it out of the program fee. If possible, when we take credit card payments again, we will be adding a processing fee per transaction. We have to figure out what that fee would be. I will keep you posted on changes. So for the time being, we’re still accepting checks.

Please note, the BORP office suite number has been changed from #155 to #200. Everything else is the same.

Financial Aid

We want you to participate in BORP outings. Call us and we can talk about payment plans or scholarships.

For cancellation and refund policies for outings and adventure programs, call Lori Gray or the BORP Office.

Full refunds are given only if we must cancel an outing. In the event of illness or other emergencies, please call the specified trip leader or outings and adventures coordinator. Credit may be possible.

Volunteers:

BORP trips are possible because of dedicated people who generously donate their time and energy. You too can be one of these lovely people. Sighted guides are especially needed for hikes and riding tandem bikes. Call the office for more information.

About BORP trips:

We believe that everyone should have access to the unique challenges that outdoor recreation provides. We make every effort to accommodate your needs, including providing transportation and volunteer support. BORP plans trips for a wide spectrum of abilities, including wheelchair users, slow walkers and people with visual impairments. BORP however, does not provide attendants on trips, but will offer discounted trip fees for caregivers when possible. Family and friends are welcome on all of our trips – just let us know who is coming and their needs.

BORP trips operate on two basic tenets: One, A successful trip requires group participation, and two, a little dirt is good for the soul. The line between volunteer and participant is often blurred, as we all share responsibility for the group’s well-being. However, every person is responsible for setting their own boundaries and limitations. Safety is our first priority on all BORP outings and events.

Winter schedules often include an exciting variety of musicals that offer wheelchair seating, audio, description and ASL interpretation.